Covered the audio version of this earlier on the blog.
The Video of the NYPL Conversation with Daniel Kahneman is posted here (with transcripts). Note this is the 2nd time I’ve posted a link to the recording of a past event. And note that Kahneman figured out who Fat Tony was.
SKIN IN THE GAME. At 7:00 The DEATH OF ALMUTANABBI, page 393 of ANTIFRAGILE
Mutanabbi, to his friend who reminded him of his boast (in a poem M claims that he mastered both the sword and the word) :’your words have killed me… now I need to fight them to save my poetry so it remains pure, noble, and authentic”. And he runs to his certain death, as he was outnumbered by his enemies.
This is a Lebanese play (Classical Arabic spoken with a Levantine accent).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D874W3qyn-4&list=PL0A78F5FE80F10185
For a journalistic mind, a statement counter to common sense reveals incoherence; for a scientific one, it may uncover insights.
[Yesterday’s correspondence with a WSJ editor]
The GOLDEN RULE in Isocrates, 5th Century BC,Way before both Christianity and Rabbi Hillel.”Do not do to others that which angers you when they do it to you.
“ἃ πάσχοντες ὑφ’ ἑτέρων ὀργίζεσθε, ταῦτα τοὺς ἄλλους μὴ ποιεῖτε.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0144%3Aspeech%3D3%3Asection%3D61
Next Tueday (Feb 26), book party at the most intellectual bookstore in America (I am inviting; wine will be served).
http://site.booksite.com/6665/events/?&list=EVC1&group=current&preview=1